Climate
RET set to push up power prices
ANNABEL HEPWORTHThe Australian Energy Market Commission suggested that subsidies like the RET threaten the security of power supplies.
Climate impact ‘irreversible’
Rosie LewisMajor independent review into Australia’s environment finds climate change is placing “pervasive pressure” on it.
Farmers back emissions scheme
SARAH MARTINAustralia’s peak farming group has thrown its support behind a carbon price to fix the country’s energy woes.
PM’s ‘agnostic’ on energy
Rachel BaxendaleMalcolm Turnbull uses a visit to a Queensland solar farm to talk up his practical, businesslike approach to energy.
Power spike sparks Rio job cuts
Matt ChambersRio Tinto is to slash more than 100 jobs in Gladstone because of rising power costs and subdued aluminium prices.
Greens push to shut down coal
KYLAR LOUSSIKIANThe NSW Greens will today call for the phase-out of all coalmining in Australia over a decade-long period.
‘Basin’s $5bn down the gurgler’
Graham LloydMore than $5 billion spent in an effort to rejuvenate the Murray-Darling Basin has yielding few results, a study says.
Brewer lashes power ‘fools’
MICHAEL OWENCoopers Brewery boss Glenn Cooper lashes the Weatherill government as “fools” who rushed renewable power generation.
Quit threat sinks ALP’s 50pc RET
ANDREW BURRELLLabor abandoned plans to unveil a 50 per cent renewable energy target in WA after Mick Murray after a veteran MP threatened to quit.
China tames carbon growth
Rowan CallickChina only consumed 1.4 per cent more energy last year despite posting economic growth of 6.7 per cent.
Valley pains if Yallourn closes
CHIP Le GRANDOne-in-10 residents would flee the Latrobe Valley if the Yallourn power station follows Hazelwood and shuts its doors.
Fat cats not paid to spout pap
JUDITH SLOANThe wild ideas spouted by APRA’s Geoff Summerhayes will place a huge time and cost burden on companies.
Coca-Cola runs out of gas in SA
NICK CATERNews that Coca-Cola will be closing its Adelaide bottling plant was greeted with the Premier’s customary shrug.
‘Don’t shut coal power too early’
ANNABEL HEPWORTHWorkhorse coal-fired power stations should not be closed too early, a Queensland entrepreneur has warned.
Ring of despair in ‘iron triangle’
MICHAEL OWENMany scoffed when Whyalla was thrust into focus with claims it would be “wiped from the map” by a carbon tax.
Taxpayers’ $600m for wind power
MEREDITH BOOTHWind power generators received $600 million in federal subsidies last year.
45pc baulk at renewable energy
DAVID CROWE, SARAH MARTINVoters are flinching from hits to their budgets by a shift to renewables, with 45pc saying they should not pay more.
Community has had enough
Ean HigginsCraig Perkins’s parents started farming when governments believed irrigation schemes could open up the dry interior.
Man who would be kingmaker
ANDREW BURRELLMuslims shouldn’t be in Australia. Single mothers are a “drag on society”. Global warming is “nonsense”.
Energy retailers prefer fines
SARAH MARTINEnergy sector will fall 10 per cent short of renewable energy targets, after electricity retailers chose penalties.
